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The Deadlands: Hunted

By: Skye Melki-Wegner

Narrated by: John Pirhalla

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Wings of Fire meets Jurassic Park in this action-adventure middle grade debut series by Skye Melki-Wegner about five outcasts—and former enemies—who are the only hope to save their warring kingdoms from impending doom.

"My favorite middle grade book of the year.” —New York Times-bestselling author Amie Kaufman

Battle rages between the dinosaur... Read more

The Truffle Underground

By: Ryan Jacobs

Narrated by: Ari Fliakos

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

“The ultimate truffle true crime tale”*: A thrilling journey through the hidden underworld of the world's most prized luxury ingredient.

*Bianca Bosker, New York Times bestselling author of Cork Dork

Beneath the gloss of star chefs and crystal-laden tables, the truffle supply chain is touched by theft, secrecy, sabotage, and fraud. Farmers patrol... Read more

Make My Wish Come True

By: Rachael Lippincott & Alyson Derrick

Narrated by: Krystal Hammond & Natalie Naudus

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

“Forgiveness, friendship, and vulnerability all shine as brightly as holiday lights in this snow-sprinkled romance.” —Booklist (starred review)

‘Tis the season for holiday hijinks in this “swoon-worthy” (Kirkus Reviews) sapphic rom-com about a rising star and a small town girl going on twelve fake holidates from the New York Times bestselling... Read more

Golden Child

By: Claire Adam

Narrated by: Obi Abili

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A deeply affecting debut novel set in Trinidad, following the lives of a family as they navigate impossible choices about scarcity, loyalty, and love

WINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE • “Golden Child is a stunning novel written with force and beauty.  Though true to herself, Adam's work stands tall beside icons of her tradition like V.S.... Read more

Victim

By: Andrew Boryga

Narrated by: Anthony Rey Perez

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

FINALIST FOR THE GOTHAM BOOK PRIZE • AN NPR, BBC, AND DEBUTIFUL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • There’s a fine line between bending the truth and telling bold-faced lies, and Javier Perez is willing to cross it. Victim is a fearless satire about a hustler from the Bronx who sees through the veneer of diversity initiatives and decides to cash in on the... Read more

The Boneless Mercies

By: April Genevieve Tucholke

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A dark and gorgeously drawn standalone YA fantasy about a band of mercenary girls in search of female glory. Won in a major six-house auction! Frey, Ovie, Juniper, and Runa are the Boneless Mercies-girls hired to kill quickly, quietly, and mercifully. But Frey is weary of the death trade and, having been raised on the heroic sagas of her people,... Read more

If This Gets Out

By: Sophie Gonzales & Cale Dietrich

Narrated by: Ramon de Ocampo

Length: 12 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Sophie Gonzales and Cale Dietrich's “If This Gets Out is an absolute showstopper! Equal parts edgy and adorable, this bright, joyful book has everything I look for in a queer YA romance.” —Phil Stamper, bestselling author of The Gravity of Us

You’re in the most popular boy band in America…and all you want is the boy singing next to... Read more

Nights When Nothing Happened

By: Simon Han

Narrated by: James Chen

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Named a Best Book of the Year by Time, The Washington Post, and Harper's Bazaar

“A tender, spiky family saga about love in all its mysterious incarnations.” —Lorrie Moore, author of A Gate at the Stairs and Birds of America

“Absolutely luminous . . . Weaves the transience of suburbia between the highs and lows of a family saga . . . Shocks, awes,... Read more

Courting Mr. Lincoln

By: Louis Bayard

Narrated by: Robert Fass & Tavia Gilbert

Length: 13 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

When Mary Todd meets Abraham Lincoln in Springfield in the winter of 1840, he is on no one's shortlist to be president. Rough and reticent, he's a country lawyer lacking money and manners, living above a dry goods shop, but with a gift for oratory. Mary, a quick, self-possessed debutante with a tireless interest in debates and elections, at... Read more

Don't Look for Me

By: Wendy Walker

Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In Wendy Walker's thrilling novel Don't Look for Me, the greatest risk isn’t running away. It’s running out of time.

One night, Molly Clarke walked away from her life.

She doesn't want to be found.

Or at least, that's the story.

The car abandoned miles from home.

The note found at a nearby hotel.

The shattered family that couldn’t be put back... Read more

The Perishing

By: Natashia Deón

Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts & Kevin R. Free

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A Black immortal in 1930s Los Angeles seeks to recover the memory of her past in this visionary novel from NAACP Image Award nominee Natashia Deón

Lou, a young Black woman, wakes up in an alley in 1930s Los Angeles with no memory of how she got there or where she’s from. Taken in by a caring foster family, Lou dedicates herself to her education... Read more

10 Things I Hate about Pinky

By: Sandhya Menon

Narrated by: Vikas Adam & Soneela Nankani

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The delightful follow-up to When Dimple Met Rishi and There’s Something about Sweetie, which follows Ashish’s friends Pinky and Samir as they pretend to date in order to achieve their individual goals, to disastrous and hilarious results.

Pinky Kumar wears the social justice warrior badge with pride. From raccoon hospitals to persecuted rock... Read more

Somebody's Fool

By: Richard Russo

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 16 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Empire Falls returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and to the characters that captured the hearts and imaginations of millions of readers in his beloved best sellers Nobody’s Fool and Everybody’s Fool.

“Sumptuous, spirited . . . [Russo] paints a shining fresco of a... Read more

Becoming a Queen

By: Dan Clay

Narrated by: Dan Clay

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

A vibrant and emotional novel from debut author Dan Clay about a boy who turns toward love, self-expression, and drag when the unthinkable happens, perfect for fans of Jandy Nelson and Julie Murphy.

If only Mark Davis hadn’t put on a dress for the talent show. It was a joke—other guys did it too—but when his... Read more

Swamplandia!

By: Karen Russell

Narrated by: Arielle Sitrick & David Ackroyd

Length: 13 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

From the celebrated twenty-nine-year-old author of the everywhere-heralded short-story collection St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (“How I wish these were my own words, instead of the breakneck demon writer Karen Russell’s . . . Run for your life. This girl is on fire”—Los Angeles Times Book Review) comes a blazingly original debut... Read more

The Witching Tide

By: Margaret Meyer

Narrated by: Miranda Raison

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Named a best historical novel of the year by The New York Times Book Review and “reminiscent of both The Scarlet Letter and Hamnet” (Jezebel), The Witching Tide is a powerful debut inspired by the true events behind a deadly witch hunt in 17th-century England.

East Anglia, 1645. Martha Hallybread, a midwife, healer, and servant, has lived... Read more

The Wanderers

By: Meg Howrey

Narrated by: Mozhan Marnò

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliantly inventive novel about three astronauts training for the first-ever mission to Mars, an experience that will push the boundary between real and unreal, test their relationships, and leave each of them—and their families—changed forever.
 
“A transcendent, cross-cultural, and cross planetary journey into the mysteries of space and... Read more

A Wolf for a Spell

By: Karah Sutton

Narrated by: Beata Pozniak

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The Girl Who Drank the Moon meets Pax in this fantastical tale of a wolf who forms an unlikely alliance with Baba Yaga to save the forest from a wicked tsar.

Since she was a pup, Zima has been taught to fear humans--especially witches--but when her family is threatened, she has no choice but to seek help from the witch Baba Yaga.

Baba Yaga never... Read more

The Secrets We Kept: Reese's Book Club

By: Lara Prescott

Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell, Mozhan Marnò, Carlotta Brentan...

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A HELLO SUNSHINE x REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK

A thrilling tale of secretaries turned spies, of love and duty, and of sacrifice--inspired by the true story of the CIA plot to infiltrate the hearts and minds of Soviet Russia, not with propaganda, but with the greatest love story of the twentieth century: Doctor Zhivago.

At the height of the... Read more

Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun

By: Tolá Okogwu

Narrated by: Nneka Okoye

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED A 2023 ALA NOTABLE CHILDREN’S RECORDING!

Black Panther meets X-Men in this “fast-paced, action-packed, and empowering” (A. F. Steadman, New York Times bestselling author of Skandar and the Unicorn Thief) middle grade adventure about a British Nigerian girl who learns that her Afro hair has psychokinetic powers—perfect for fans of Amari and... Read more

The Rehearsals

By: Annette Christie

Narrated by: Amanda Troop & Will Collyer

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Groundhog Day meets One Day in December in this funny and romantic novel about a couple who call off their wedding after a disastrous rehearsal dinner—only to wake up the next morning stuck in a time loop.

Two people. One wedding. No end in sight.

"A sweet, delightful romance." —People
“Irresistible.” —Elin Hilderbrand
"An enchanting and compelling... Read more

Running Out

By: Lucas Bessire

Narrated by: John Chancer

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for the National Book Award This audiobook narrated by John Chancer recounts an intimate reckoning with aquifer depletion in America's heartland The Ogallala aquifer has nourished life on the American Great Plains for millennia. But less than a century of unsustainable irrigation farming has taxed much of the aquifer beyond repair.... Read more

Fire with Fire

By: Candice Fox

Narrated by: Jay Aaseng

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrator Jay Aaseng takes an outstanding, edge-of-your-seat crime thriller and makes it even better with a pitch-perfect execution." —AudioFile

Candice Fox's Fire with Fire is a non-stop, gripping thriller from "a bright new star in crime fiction." (James Patterson)

A pair of desperate parents. A man on the run. A rookie cop.
Four people with... Read more

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

By: Mary Ann Shaffer

Narrated by: Taylor Owynns

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

It's 1946. The war is over, and Juliet Ashton has writer's block. But when she receives a letter from Dawsey Adams of Guernsey – a total stranger living halfway across the Channel, who has come across her name written in a second hand book – she enters into a correspondence with him, and in time with all the members of the extraordinary Guernsey... Read more